Bhausaheb is a 29 year old man living in the city of Pune, he is living with HIV. Bhausaheb agreed to share some of his experiences of living with the HIV virus in modern India. [read more…]

January 2010

NMP Plus Case Studies
Purba lives in Ahmednagar. Two years ago when Purba’s husband died of AIDS, she
collapsed with worrying about her future life. She found out she was HIV positive herself.
When she came to know about her HIV status, she was very depressed. How would her
children face society and the world? At the same time she was facing lots of problems at her
mother-in–law’s house where she then lived. They abused her, telling her ‘my son died
because of you’ and blamed her for spreading HIV. They also mistreated her children. They
denied her her property rights. Her mother-in-law also demanded Rs. 50,000 from Purba to
pay for the boring of a well in the farm. [read more…]

December 2009

NMP Plus Case Studies
Here, we have a case study of a person whom we have just taken out from the mouth of
death. Any credit should go to our network out-reach team and specially the treatment
support coordinator Anjali Yadav who have taken follow up of this person when the person
was not enrolled or registered in our network. [read more…]

November 2009

NMP Plus Case Studies
Supriya is a 29 years old female. Her husband has expired due to HIV in a village of Wardha district. Lack of knowledge about HIV among his family members meant they were unable to seek the proper treatment and he died. After his death Supriya’s mother-in-law and other family members started mistreating Supriya, accusing her of killing her husband. They made her leave home. She went to live with her father. He is widower and lives alone. He is an alcoholic and a labourer. [read more…]

October 2009

NMP Plus Case Studies
It was a hot summer season, when we reached to Lingnur. It is a small village in Miraj Taluka. Counsellor Londe and I were on home visit to evaluate Vaishali, a 7 year old child. As we reached her house an old lady of about 65 years old came forward to receive us. She was sweating and was covered in dust. We were little bit upset and wondered to see her. But when we asked her the situation she explained the past clearly. When we heard it we were full of pity. That poor old lady had come from a nearby cornfield where she had gone for daily work. She had come to give food, medicines and to see the condition of Vaishali, who was bed ridden. [read more…]

September 2009

NMP Plus Case Studies
When a husband dies there is no one to care for his wife. The civil society will not accept
her, this society wants to put restrictions on her without sympathy or empathy. If the wife
died society would not restrict him. This shows that our society is a male dominated
society. If the male goes wrong no one asks him about his faults, but if a woman is doing
the same this society says that she is not suited for society. [read more…]

July 2009

NMP Plus Case Studies
My name is Bausaheb, I am 27yrs old, I was born in a village in Beed District. I had married in 2003. After 4 month of marriage I fell sick, I had weakness. My HIV test was done, without my knowledge. My parents knew my status but they didn’t tell me. Only the Doctor told me to stop my sexual activity. I don’t know why they didn’t tell me? Then I went with my parents to the District Hospital. Again my testing was done and my report is HIV positive, when we came home my parents told me the reality. Then my wife’s test was also done, fortunately she is negative.[read more…]

June 2009

Sanjeevan Sanstha, Nagpur District Network
Ganesh is a 27 year old single man who was educated to degree level and has a job in private industry. When he came to the Sanjeevan office he looked tense and scared. We first relaxed him and gave him information about the Sanjeevan organisation. After feeling comfortable he told us that he is unmarried and from the age of 18 years he has had many addictions. He also had sexual relations with female sex workers. After a few years he started losing weight and became weaker day after day. [read more…]

May 2009

Success Story from Beed & Kolhapur - May 2009
This is the case of one PLHIV woman who has fallen into stigma and discrimination not only from society but also from herself and her family. Puja (her name has been changed for her security) has to fight for her freedom and also for her life. This makes her ask a question to God, why! For this case study I personally interacted with her and think it should be written. Presence of mind I learn is a part of life and also we must think positively.
[read more…]

April 2009

Success Stories - April 2009
Sanjay is 32 and living with his family. His family has the traditional occupation of pot making. In the session of Ganpati Mahotsav and Navratra they prepared the statue of Lord Ganpati and Durgamata. They have a big market at the taluka level. In the summer season they are very busy in their work. Sanjay’s father is the head of family and his decisions are final. Sanjay is the eldest of three brothers. He is married to a woman, Anjana, who is from a family of farmers.
[read more…]

March 2009

Success Story from Kolhapur & Pune
Rekha married Shankar in 1998. Both were living in Wadgaon with Shankar’s parents–in–law. They were very happy. Shankar was working in Gahatage Patil Transport in Kolhapur. Rekha was 7 months pregnant at that time but her mother in law beat her for small reasons so they went to live separately from her in–laws. Rekha gave birth to a daughter, and Rekha’s mother and father gave good support. [read more…]

Success Story from Kolhapur
Suresh Kaingade [changed name] worked for an industrial company. He lived with his family in Kodoli Panhala, Kolhapur. His spouse’s name is Sunita and he has two sons named Rohit & Rahul. Suresh had some health problems, so his brother sought advice from various doctors and specialists [read more…]

February 2009

Success Story from Aurangabad
Mr Singh is a 40 year old man. He is married and has two children. He is working for a travel agency as driver in the Aurangabad district. His monthly income is 2000 rs. Out of this small amount he has to pay rent for his house, all household expenses, and his children’s educational expenses [read more…]

January 2009

Success Story from Parbhani
In Parbhani district there are many clients living with HIV and every one has his or her own different history. Among them is one whose case study is written below. All the names have been changed [read more…]

Vidhya Kadham 1979 – 2009
Vidhya Kadam was murdered on the 17th January 2009, a black day and a huge loss for our movement. It is a tragedy that such a valuable life has been taken when she had at last received her property rights and was living a full life contributing to improving the lives of positive people [read more…]

Success Story from Sangali & Satara
Ms. Uma is 25 years old. She has a good family background. She married in 1996. Her husband was in the army. After some time he fell ill, and left his job in the army to come back home [read more…]

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Success Story from Beed & Parbhani
Ms. Sunita (26 yrs) is a very beautiful young woman. She was married in the year 2002 and had a very happy married life with her husband who was the owner cum driver of a taxi car. He was the owner of a shop. Soon she was pregnant and she gave birth to her first baby girl child. Everything went well in their life until 2004. Then her husband started developing a fever, lost weight etc [read more…]

Success Story from Aurangabad
Mr Singh is a 40 year old man. He is married and has two children. He is working for a travel agency as driver in the Aurangabad district. His monthly income is 2000 rs. Out of this small amount he has to pay rent for his house, all household expenses, and his children’s educational expenses [read more…]

Success Story from Kolhapur
Suresh Kaingade [changed name] worked for an industrial company. He lived with his family in Kodoli Panhala, Kolhapur. His spouse’s name is Sunita and he has two sons named Rohit & Rahul. Suresh had some health problems, so his brother sought advice from various doctors and specialists [read more…]

Success Story from Parbhani
In Parbhani district there are many clients living with HIV and every one has his or her own different history. Among them is one whose case study is written below. All the names have been changed [read more…]

Success Story from Sangali
In 1984 to 1985 I am learning at ITI. Our friends and I all went on a Goa tour. My friends knew about Goa but I was new to this so I didn’t know the area. We all entered in the commercial sex worker area. But I stayed outside waiting for them [read more…]